Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-25
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- hou season for Waahington Terri
8 - Beginning with one bale Tor a
=. crop. We ran last year 70 twenty
q - thousand approximately, and viii
1910 eaual It this year, despite The
s,sest season We ever saw - sid
syweEybody. -
6 ne tines are ripe for lttle remin-
...pee Of bygone days, when We used
ns.ltiyate around the stumps; when
!, .,ams were the rule and horses the
7 .-..ptiou: when some Of as hsnlsd
q, on sled; went % the mill with
~,ea: went fifteen or twenty miles 70
4, b,acksnilh shop; when potatoes
-.vs almost q legal tender, and salmon
4 ,.-r;es IN their season a luxury When
A. roaas we're mere trails; the bridges
- existing; schOolhouses Of the most
rsmitive kind; churches the same;
.hsn the solitude Of the Puget Sound
r,sers was not disturbed BY steamers;
"a finally, when We al knew each
olhs,. from one end Of the land TO the
4 stber. giving good cheer whenever and
vherever we met.
HALO hellol who's that2 Yes
"a What isit! Oh. that's you. Seat
ns-eood night--good night Wait =
minute; and 50 on through the list Of
81 one-sided talk through the
aPhoue.'s as now seen and heard on
~ not where the bears held their
ia carnival but q few years ago.
fhree, FIVE, eight, twelve trains day
ever ground where, but few short
vars ago, the or teams trudged their
lsdious way. Gable from London
avs today" instead Of the mail two
months old, reports Of the markets or
current events. One hundred and
drty steamers carrying freight and
passengers on the Sound. where bat
comparatively q few years ago only
he Indian canoe nayigated the water.
! Then coal was imported for the forge
and such other uses rs must needs be,
While cit was reported coal was
iOund "Ep the Puyallup" and hack
q Seattle" Nov the output from
shsse localities is limited only by the
demands Of the market. Then thirty
hree years AgOl we we're all aglsw with |
news from the railroad survey" (ete- !
ens's overland trip expecting imme-
date building. Nov, Iol after these |
Airty-three years We see the great feat
accomplished, and overland trains are l
creeping up and down the mountain
ides with regularity and safety. So
90 through the whole long list Of things |
expected and accomplished, gradually
lhOugh surely changing from the pio-
neeT life, with its freedom, les ioviAlity.
warm friendships csmented by com
mon dangers and common cares, 70
that Of the cosmopolitan experience Of
The later years. The ranks have been
steadily thinned Of those who have
lived to see the extremes Of the changes
made, while new generation has come
upon the stage, destined 10 see yet stIll
greater changes as time gees on.
And what has all this 10 do about
agriculture or agricultural pursuits or
The homer viii be asked. A great deal.
The changes already made point 70 the
peater changes impending; they tell
Us Oh the great future Of this great
country; impcl us 10 clear more land,
i SOW more clover, set out more fruit
trees, plant more hops, keep more cows,
smooth of more meadows, lay more
drains. pillow deeper. The people are
here and more are coming 10 occupy.
enjoy and improve this long neglected
but now at last fully appreciated coun-
Try Of Washington Territory, 20 soon
10 be clothed with Statehood powers
The State TO be second TO but few COM
nOnwealths Of this great nation Of
States in wealth, population, enterprise
and intelligence. SO mote Il be.
CUTTING FKKp.
Il costs s3.25 per ton 10 cut feed with
hand cutter for the horses on the
home farm. Fred asoertained this
szsctly by weighing out the hay and
timing the man that did the work.
Ater three months test there we con
GUIDED to put the same system into
operation on the creamery farm. The
men were told TO weigh out for awhile
he cut hay and grain, and then, after
getting regulated, might depend on
measuring. They did not do either,
but started in haphaEard TO guess Il
Of close enough" The old man :"
soon caught them al their guesswork.
Upon weighing what they were feeding
and what was ordered Ted, il was found
that eighteen pounds day Of cut hay
had been fed 10 the horse, and more OF
The ground barley and meal mixed; |
ha to thirteen hundred pound horses,
and was fully 20 per cent more than
they had been directed 10 feed, and, a.
consequences, was not always eaten
Up clean.
The teams TO be fed had just come
nom the home farm had been fed for
'Aree months according TO the direc-
tons Of Fred's letter 20 follow; had
been worked steadily and hard, piew-
ing deep in the hop yards all the while,
and were in good solid flesh and good
heart; in word, fat enough. So the
old mar" was heard from the second
time, in quite positive terms, 70 weigh
hat feed.
Pred had written, and We had given
the men direc ions 70 follow his letter
We feed ~ Poands cut hay and Ave
pounds ground grain in the morning,
Tie same at noon, aud Ave pounds
each Of hay aud grain at night
You want to wet the hay thor
Oaghly. stirring il web before the grain |
Is sprinkled over Is: then, when The
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